[rescue] Sun Enterprise 3500 Wont Boot Solaris

[PhreakShow Telephone Company]

I got her going its installing solaris 10 now :)  Thanks again for all the help

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:
> On 09/19/17 06:10 PM, PhreakShow Telephone Company wrote:
>>
>> i tried my SCSI DVD Drive on it too,  same issues.  Time to dig out my
>> external
>>
>
> One final item for optical drive consideration, the 512 byte vs 2048 byte
> thing.
>
> This is an actual SUMMARY post for a E3500 from 2009 from the SunManagers
> mailing list.
>
> In short, confirm that your optical drive is set to 512 byte block size.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> ...............................
>
> SUMMARY: booting E3500 from 10/09 Solaris 10 DVD
>
> The solution was to apply patch 111649 03, or a later version, to update the
> Toshiba SD-M1401 DVD-ROM drive's firmware.  I found 111649-04 and applied
> it.
> After I completed this step I was able to boot the 10/09 Solaris 10 DVD
> without issue.
>
>
> Other suggestions:
>
> Some of the Sun DVD drives (early SCSI) need the jumper on the drive to be
> moved from 512byte to 2048byte setting to allow booting of DVDs.
>
> Some of the Sun DVD drives prefer DVD+R media over DVD-R.
>
>
> Many thanks to all who replied!
> Jason
>
> On Nov 17, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Jason Buchanan wrote:
>
>> I have recently acquired an E3500 that is equipped with a DVD-ROM drive.
>> I
>> can boot CDs but not DVDs.  A U60 will boot the media fine from the same
>> DVD-ROM drive but no luck if I move the drive to the E3500.
>>
>> Is the E3500 capable of booting DVDs?
>>
>> Is the 10/09 Solaris 10 media available as CDs or will I have to create a
>> network boot server to install the OS?
>>
>>
>> thanks - I will summarize responses.
>>
>> regards,
>> Jason
>
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